The End of Star

Last week marked the end of Star vs The Forces of Evil, already one of my favorite shows of this decade. I’ve explained what I like about it once before, but let this serve as a short addendum now that we know where the story went and how it all ended. Slightly muddled spoilers ahead (but spoilers nevertheless, including the final episode).

Boback Horseperson: 5th strike

As I was watching the final scene of Bojack Horseman season 5, with Diane riding into the sunset, I was pretty underwhelmed. While the season had some great comedy and observations, it seemingly lacked an emotional narrative hook and as a result left me with no particular lasting impression. For a few days after having finished watching my feelings about the show didn’t change much.

And then I started thinking about it.

Kaguya wants to be confessed to

It feels inevitable to bring up “Death Note” when describing “Kaguya-Sama: Love is War”, so let me just do it right away - this is a parody of romantic comedies where neither of the two main characters wants to admit they’re into each other, so instead they get into a ridiculous battle of minds trying to get the other to fess up, indeed resembling those L and Kira had.

Nozomi and the blue girl

As someone familiar with the Hibike Euphonium TV show and roughly aware of what happens in the original books it’s based on, I wasn’t sure why the first standalone movie in the franchise would focus on Nozomi Kasaki and Mizore Yoroizuka. For starters, I thought their story was already told - first introduced in the beginning of season two, they seemingly had an issue with one another concerning something that happened a year earlier, but less than halfway through it turned out to be a misunderstanding, they start talking again and we get the good ending. Chapter closed, lived happily ever after, move on?